Taiwanese among six
killed in California
SANTA BARBARA:Hong Cheng-yuan was the roommate of
suspected killer Elliot Rodger. The foreign ministry is still checking whether
another victim is Taiwanese
By Jake Chung
/ Staff writer, with CNA and AP
US authorities have confirmed that at
least one of the victims in a killing spree last week in California was a Taiwanese student, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
spokesperson Anna Kao (高安) said
yesterday.
Representatives from the Taiwan
Economic and Cultural Exchange Office (TECRO) branch in Los Angeles has
“established direct contact with local authorities” and the University of
California at Santa Barbara to offer its assistance, Kao added.
On Friday night, Elliot Rodger, 22, allegedly stabbed to death his two
roommates — Hong Cheng-yuan (洪晟元), also known
as James, 20, and George Chen, 19 — and a visitor, Wang Weihan, 20, from
Fremont, California, in their apartment near the university campus.
Rodger then drove to the Alpha Phi sorority house on campus
and shot three women on the lawn.
Katherine Cooper, 22, and Veronika
Weiss, 19 — both students at the university — were killed. The third women, as
yet unidentified, is being treated for multiple gunshot wounds.
Rodger drove on to a local deli, went inside and shot
and killed Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez, 20.
He injured 13 more either with gunshots
or a car that he used as a battering
ram against bicyclists and skateboarders.
The killing spree claimed seven lives,
including Rodger’s.
The Santa Barbara County Sherriff’s
Office said Rodger took his own life after the rampage.
US media reports said Rodger had
uploaded multiple YouTube videos, including one, which has since been removed,
titled Day of Retribution, promising to have “his revenge against humanity” —
particularly the women whom he claims rejected him.
Hong, who identified himself on
Facebook as having grown up in Taipei, had graduated from Lynbrook High School
in San Jose, California, the TECRO office in Los Angeles said.
The office is still seeking
confirmation with the university whether Chen was also Taiwanese.
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Structure
WHO : Hong
Cheng-yuan, Elliot Rodger
WHEN : yesterday
WHAT : US
authorities have confirmed that at least one of the victims in a killing spree
last week in California was a Taiwanese student.
WHERE : the
University of California at Santa Barbara
WHY : Elliot
Rodger promised to have “his revenge against humanity” — particularly the women
whom he claims rejected him
HOW : Elliot Rodger
killed people with gunshots
Key Words
1.
killing spree:大殺特殺
2.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs :外交部
3.
allegedly:據稱
4.
stab:刺
5.
sorority:女學生聯誼會
6.
deli:熟食店
7.
battering ram :破城(牆)槌，攻城木
8.
rampage:橫衝直撞，亂衝
